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Periodical: Anthropological Review [LAS]

Summary:  Anthropological Review, The.
Journal of the Anthropological Society of London.
1863—1870 Monthly, then quarterly
London, England. Language: English.
Publisher: Trubner and Co.
Corporate author: Anthropological Society of London / Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland1/1, May 1863-8/29, April 1870. 13s. 6d.

This was the journal of the Anthropological Society of London founded by James Hunt and Richard Francis Burton in a revolt from the politics of the Ethnological Society. The journal was largely devoted to learned reports on current interests in cranioscopy and the like and is included here because of the regular contributions by Burton, A.R. Wallace, and C. Carter Blake and occasional investigations of spiritualism. American Museum of Natural History; NY Academy of Medicine; etc.

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Issues:Anthropological Review V1 1863
Anthropological Review V2 1864
Anthropological Review V3 1865
Anthropological Review V4 1866
Anthropological Review V5 1867
Anthropological Review V6 1868
Anthropological Review V7 1869
Anthropological Review V8 1870
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Anthropological Review (1863–1870) was the journal of James Hunt's Anthropological Society of London, a mainstream — and, by present lights, racially prejudiced — organ of Victorian physical anthropology and ethnology. Its articles concern skulls and crania, the classification of peoples by hair and physical type, comparative kinship and 'savage' custom: the empirical race science of its age rather than any esoteric pursuit. Within a collection of occult and spiritualist periodicals it is an outlier, present chiefly because nineteenth-century craniology shares vocabulary and personnel with the phrenological tradition. It is best read as a scientific journal that borders the occult corpus only at the seam of skull-measuring, not as a participant in it.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Spiritualism